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Hi lovelies! It gives me great pleasure
today to host Brandi Megan Granett and her new book, “Triple Love Score”! For other stops on her Goddess Fish
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Triple Love Score

by Brandi Megan Granett

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GENRE:
Contemporary Romance

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BLURB:

Miranda Shane
lives a quiet life among books and letters as a professor in a small upstate
town. When the playing-by-the-rules poet throws out convention and begins to
use a Scrabble board instead of paper to write, she sets off a chain of events
that rattles her carefully planned world.

Her awakening
propels her to take risks and seize chances she previously let slip by,
including a game-changing offer from the man she let slip away. But when the
revelation of an affair with a graduate student threatens the new life Miranda
created, she is forced to decide between love or poetry.

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EXCERPT TWO:

“You
sure you don’t want to take a cab?” Scott asked her.

“I’m
sure. Then we wouldn’t see the diamonds,” Lynn said.

“Tiffany’s?”
Miranda asked. “You’re a little young for that aren’t you? Though you are
Bunny’s granddaughter.”

“Not
like Grandma Bunny’s diamonds! The diamonds on the sidewalk. Look!”

Sure
enough, the concrete in front of them sparkled. Four or five runs of sidewalk
shimmered with mica flecks, then it went to plain for a block or two, then more
that sparkled.

“I
want to know what makes them different,” Miranda said to Scott, pointing at the
abrupt change from sparkle to non-sparkle on the sidewalk in front of them.

“But
knowing the difference would ruin it,” Scott said.

“You’d
rather think it was magic?”

“I
like the idea of magic. Don’t you?” he asked.

“I
don’t take much stock in that,” Miranda said.

“Daddy,
look!” Lynn said.

And
there in front of them was a huge elephant balloon with a circus ball balancing
on his trunk. The ball wasn’t all the way inflated yet; it wobbled a little and
the sides of the elephant shuddered some as the helium pumped in. But an
elephant as tall as a house at Central Park was a sight to behold no matter the
size or amount of helium left to go. The
crowd around them seemed to holding their breath in anticipation as the ball
slowly rose.

“See,”
Miranda said, “to people watching on television that's magic. But it’s not
magic. It’s a year of planning and then people working all night on the day
before a family holiday to pull it off.”

“But
it’s magic to her,” Scott said.

Lynn
strained at the barricade, craning her neck to see down the street and the rest
of the balloons staged there.

“Sure,
it’s magic to her. She’s a kid. Kids have to believe in magic. When you really
grow up, it’s different.”

Brandi
Megan Granett
is an author, online English professor, and private writing mentor. She holds a
PhD in Creative Writing from Aberystwyth University, Wales, an MFA in Fiction
from Sarah Lawrence College, a Masters in Adult Education with an emphasis on
Distance Education from Penn State University, and a BA from the University of
Florida.

Granett is the
author of My Intended (William Morrow, 2000). Her short fiction has appeared in
Pebble Lake Review, Folio, Pleiades and other literary magazines, and is
collected in the volume Cars and Other Things That Get Around.

In addition,
she writes an author interview series for the Huffington Post, and is a member
of the Tall Poppy Writers, a community of writing professionals committed to
growing relationships, promoting the work of its members, and connecting
authors with each other and with readers.

When Granett is
not writing or teaching or mothering, she is honing her archery skills. She
lives in New Jersey with her husband, daughter and two dogs.

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Monday, January 30, 2017

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Hi lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host A.
R. Kennedy and her new book, “Gone But Not Missed”! For other stops on her Goddess Fish
Promotions Book Tour, please click on the banner above or any of the images in
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Gone But Not Missed

by A. R. Kennedy

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GENRE:
Mystery

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BLURB:

Lillian Brannon
wakes up on Valentine's Day in an exact replica of her bedroom but the only
item that she believes is authentic is her dog, Laude. She is held captive in
her kidnapper's basement apartment, summoned upstairs once a week for a chaste
dinner. But will his kindness last, and more importantly, why isn’t anyone
looking for her?

Lillian’s story
is interwoven with that of Nathan, a NYPD officer, who is intrigued by
Lillian’s disappearance- how can a young woman be gone for two weeks before a
Missing Person Report is filed? Local police believe Lillian has voluntarily
abandoned a life she didn’t like. Lillian’s best friend convinces Nathan the
authorities are wrong. With no jurisdiction, no resources, and no witnesses, he
is compelled by the pictures of Lillian with her sweet smile and sparkling
green eyes to obsessively take up the case. Armed with Lillian’s keys and
personal information, he spends hours, then days in her home trying to find
clues that will lead him to her.

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EXCERPT TWO:

Nathan

As
we stepped off the elevator on the fifth floor, he continued. “I already looked
around the apartment. Found nothing. Just have to go back in for a second. I
left the Missing Persons Report in there.”

“How
long she been gone?,” I asked. As he entered the apartment, I stood in the
doorway. I looked around the simple apartment. It looked barely lived in. There
was nothing hung on the walls; no
personal touches anywhere in sight.

“Two
weeks,” Steve answered.

I
shook my head in disbelief. “That’s a long time.”

“Well,
we don’t know if she’s missing, or left, or...”

“What
do you mean?” I looked at Steve, not knowing where he was going with this.

“We
got a call from a lady last week rambling on and on about a missing dog. She’s
a dog walker; dog’s gone. She’s distraught. I give her the number for the
shelter. Tell her to call local vets, post signs, whatever. I figure she lost
the dog and knows the owner is going to be pissed. But, she says the owner’s
gone too. I look up the girl’s name, no missing person report. I tell the woman
sorry she’s lost a client but not a police matter. She just wouldn’t stop about
the damn dog. Then we get a call from an out of state friend who says she can’t
reach the lady either and files the report.” Steve walked around the apartment,
continuing to gesture wildly. “She lives close to where we used to. Ardsley,
Pennsylvania.”

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Saturday, January 28, 2017

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Friday, January 27, 2017

Hello lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to
host Jeremy T. Ringfield and his new book, “51 Love”! For other stops on his Goddess Fish Promotions
Book Tour, please click on the banner above or any of the images in this post.

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giveaway!

51 Love

by Jeremy T. Ringfield

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GENRE: New
Adult Contemporary Romantic Suspense

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BLURB:

This
story is about Abram, a hopeless romantic who enrolls into college and begins
leaving love notes for the girl, Jec, who works at the front desk of his
student apartments. About why they know each other when neither have even met.
That's right, she had seen his face only two weeks earlier, when he tossed his
book bag in the middle of the street, holding up traffic like a mad homeless
man. But what she doesn't know is that just before he came to grab his keys to
move in, the handsome albeit strange eyes and the person they belong to had
just been released from the county jail.

The
jail cell talk without any cameras around to record make his last 51 minutes in
the pen with a sketchy bunkmate a do or die conversation that may explain why
he became homeless, why he wrote the love letters in the first place, and if
both were random at all.

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EXCERPT FOUR:

Chapter
9

The same day in August, 2015

I
think, for the price of a pizza, the experience of the novel is priceless.

A
literary ecstasy, this was not a book I wanted to lend. I had to have it.

My
co-worker interjects my thoughts, “Is that lighter fluid? What is he burning
out there in our fire pit? I’m telling you Jec, that dude killed somebody. You
haven’t seen him around as long as I have. The way he’s always scrunching his
face, looking like a stone cold killer with all that stinking thinking. Some
people struggle with who they really are. And when it goes foul, you know they
don’t always catch these people.”

He
picks up and holds out the book I am reading titled Wait For You, and says,
“Some novels you have to read twice to really see all the beauty in the
nuances, but these plots don’t always end beautifully Jec. You should start
reading more of them.”

I
take a bite out of an apple and stop scratching my thumb across a squiggled
smear on my permanent marker to look out the window as I reply to my front desk
co-receptionist, “Bobby, you’re being ridiculous. It just looked like he pulled
some papers from a box and threw them into the pit. Hey, where’d he go?”

Bobby
answers quickly, “No really, have you seen him using his hands on the street?
He’s probably practicing some lethal judo that nobody knows right now.
Hi-yah!—”

Ding-Ding.

At
the sound of the front door bell I tried to smother my giggle in
professionalism, but I no longer found it necessary to suppress as the blurry
silhouette of the person entering the front door became clear and my laughter
came to a sudden halt.

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INTERVIEW:

Good morning Jeremy! Welcome to Fabulous and Brunette! We are thrilled to have you here and can’t
wait to learn more about you and your new book, “51 Love.”

What is your favorite ice cream flavor?

Birthday cake

Great choice! I LOVE
Birthday Cake flavored ice cream too!

Which mythological creature are you most like?

So wish it were true, but
I would like to think that I am most like a fairy. Fly with discreet powers.

First book you remember making an indelible impression on you.

Captain Underpants. Those books still make me want to
jump into the page.

How do you develop your plot and characters?

I design my plots and characters to have an emotional
justice in mind for the end. I usually listen to a song first to get myself
almost emotionally irritated. I don’t use much of an outline. I have enough
going on in my head to let it fall onto the page where I feel it is supposed
to. I just bounce off dots to rationalize which direction they are going in.
That’s probably one of the main reasons I enjoy writing, because I get to live
through it.

Describe your writing space.

I love this question. My writing space is very open. I
like a lot of space around me because I am very animated when I write, bobbing
my head and waving my arms to a beat every now and then. I use a pen/pencil
often because I like how much my mind roams when I doodle. It gets weird sometimes
too I suppose. LOL I have to keep a notepad with me at all times because it
will just come out. I remember the first time I woke up and out of a dream in
the middle of the night in sheer laughter, and ran to my notepad. I’ve come to
accept this as my new normal now.

Thank you so much for
spending time with Fabulous and Brunette readers and sharing your exciting new
book with us! We wish you all the best
on your book tour!

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AUTHOR BIO:

Jeremy
lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He grew up in the south Atlanta area,
where he eventually earned a football scholarship to Duke University. After
experiencing enough life to form his own opinions, he enjoys sharing some with
friends, reading, watching fantasy thriller and romance films, listening to
music, and jogging when he is not writing. He writes new adult fiction.

Jeremy
would love to hear from you. Follow him on Twitter @JTRingfield, friend him on
Facebook, or visit his webpage at www.jeremytringfield.com.

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Promotions. Prizes are given away by the
sponsors and not Fabulous and Brunette. The featured author and Goddess Fish
Promotions are solely responsible for the giveaway prize.